I started as an engineer at the Baltic Shipyard. Now I bring AI into businesses

Where I've worked

1. 2025 — present · Kaliningrad, remote

   AI engineer, independent practice

   chukhaldin.ru
   • My own AI systems run around the clock: for trading, for finding customers and for collecting data from open sources
   • I work with any VPS and can deploy anything on it: systemd, nginx, Cloudflare, a secure WireGuard network
   • Since 2026 I've been bringing AI and process automation to small and medium businesses, building on what already works in my own systems
   • I handle mobile development, the backend, AI and advertising myself
2. 2024 — Mar 2026 · Remote · team in Moscow

   Online ad buyer (Middle, then Senior)

   Two online ad-buying teams (names under NDA)
   • $1.34M in ad budget, $379k net profit, average ROI of 28%
   • First team, Middle (until Nov 2025): $695k budget, ROI of 31.5%, web apps (PWAs) for Android and iOS, ads in 30+ countries
   • Second team, Senior (Sep 2025 — Mar 2026): $646k budget, average ROI of ~24.8%, landing pages for online stores
   • Wrote my own tools: automatic campaign launch through the Graph API, a collector of competitors' ads, GPT-based sorting of enquiries
   • About 300 ad videos edited in Final Cut, A/B tests on large budgets
3. Nov 2023 — Feb 2025 · Bulgaria · EU market

   Software Developer

   Asertiva Solutions
   • Built custom applications on Infor Factory Track and Mongoose (Visual Basic .NET)
   • Developed custom sessions in Infor LN Studio (BAAN 4gl)
   • Sped up SQL queries in legacy code and reworked business logic
   • Discussed technical questions directly with foreign clients
   Corporate clients

   FerrariAston MartinKozloduy NPP (Bulgaria)RosatomUSC (United Shipbuilding Corporation)and dozens of plants in Russia, the EU and the Middle East

   Dozens of tickets and Infor LN customizations for corporate clients in the EU, Russia and the CIS
4. Nov 2022 — Nov 2023 · Turkey · IT consulting

   Software Developer

   IPL Consulting
   • Learned Infor Factory Track, Mongoose and Birst
   • Customized Infor LN for client tasks (BAAN 4gl)
   • Built reports and analytics in Infor Birst
   • At the same time, did a lot of development for Russian plants and traveled to their sites
   • Developed sessions for clients' manufacturing tasks
5. Jul 2021 — Sep 2022 · St. Petersburg · Shipbuilding

   Lead Software Engineer

   Baltic Shipyard
   • Infor LN Studio and BAAN 4gl: sessions for production tasks
   • Materials logistics, production planning, warehouse accounting
   • Reports in IBM Cognos Reporter
   • Sped up SQL queries on large volumes of data
6. May 2020 — Oct 2020 · Online · US, Canada, UK, Australia

   Founder

   Enchantment Deal (Shopify)
   • Launched a Shopify store: the website, the product range, the advertising
   • First experience with Facebook Ads, Google Analytics and the Facebook Pixel
   • Email and SMS marketing, work with suppliers, order processing and delivery
   • Final Cut Pro for ad videos
7. Oct 2017 — Jul 2021 · St. Petersburg · Shipbuilding

   Engineer (1st category)

   Baltic Shipyard
   • Multi-level schedules in Primavera P6 Professional
   • Labor cost analysis, adjustments to network schedules
   • Trained workshop staff to use Progress Reporter
   • Moved data between Excel and Primavera, built formulas for production accounting
8. Jun 2017 — Jul 2019 · St. Petersburg · Electrical

   CEO

   ES-Energo LLC
   • Electrical installation work at the Zenit Arena
   • Managed the team, tracked output, handled reporting

In total, from 2021 to 2025 I made hundreds of Infor LN customizations at the Baltic Shipyard, IPL Consulting and Asertiva Solutions.

I tell the same path as one story in an essay on how I got from factory systems to AI: nine years of engineering in three countries and what it takes to make a system really work.

University degrees and professional courses

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